Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2000, 1:38 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2000, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 1:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Scranton, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 251740 SVRMHX NCC095-251815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 138 PM EDT TUE APR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 138 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PAMLICO BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SLADESVILLE AND ROSE BAY AT 145 PM EDT. FAIRFIELD AT 210 PM EDT. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF T:HE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 25, 9:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 9:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 940 AM EDT TUE APR 25 2000 VAPOR LOOPS DEPICT WELL DEFINED MID/UPR EDDY MVG E THRU NRN SC. ASSOC SFC LOW NEAR CAE. KCAE SHWS CONVECTION FIRING IN W-N QUAD OF LOW WITHIN A DECENT BAROCLINIC ZONE. SFC LOW IS FCST TO MOVE INTO SE NC BY 18Z THEN EXITING HAT BY 00Z. LOW TO MID LVL LAPSE RATES ARE LOW FOR NOW. THIS MAY SERVE TO INHIBIT STG TO SVR TSTMS. ANY SUN THO WL DESTAB ATMOS QUICKLY ALLOWING FOR PSBL HAIL MAKERS. LIKELY POPS OK FOR THIS AFTN. ANY SUN COULD BLOW AFTN TEMPS OUT OF THE WATER. VSBL LOOPS SHOW EXTENSIVE COVER AND GIVEN FCST SFC LOW TRACK...WL GO WITH IDEA OF KEEPING THE MAX BTWN 65-70. COASTAL WATERS: WNDS LGT IN SRN WATERS WITH SECNDRY LOW ALG COAST. BUOYS REPORTING A BRISK NE FETCH IN NRN WATERS N OF LOW PRES COMPLEX BUT BECMG N FM OCRACOKE NWD TO DUCN7 THIS AFTN. THINK WE CAN STICK WITH SW MOST OF THE DAY FOR SRN WATER`S WITH AN INITIAL ADJUSTMENT DWNWD. WNDS N LATE AFTN/TNGT THROUGHOUT WITH SMALL CRAFT CONDITIONS LIKELY. .MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS AND SNDS. COLBY
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.